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Comment by Jtarii

7 hours ago

Art is designed around the constraints that existed at the time when it was created, the constraints are part of the art.

All art is a compromise between artistic vision and economic reality.

I liked the vast modding community around Morrowind and had plenty of fun playing around with it in my younger years.

If the concept of art one has in mind limits creative endeavour and acts as a gatekeeper to art, then it is probably better not to have a concept of art at all.

I'm glad I'll never find out how much fun, skill gain and artful cultural production I might have missed if I had carried a false, limiting idea of art back then.